Our Love Language is Science

What’s our secret to a long-lasting relationship? The love of geek stuff. What’s yours?

This colorful view of Mercury was produced by using images from the color base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER’s primary mission. These colors are not what Mercury would look like to the human eye, but rather the colors enhance the chemical, mineralogical, and physical differences between the rocks that make up Mercury’s surface. -NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

This year marks the 28th year my husband and I have been married, plus the three years we were together before marriage. I attribute two things to our enduring relationship: One, mutual respect. We don’t ever call each other names or curse at each other, even when we’re…